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advice ?
Smoking Lion
63*93 cm
Acrylic / Oil
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>>2485791
Quit smoking weed. Your lungs and brain will thank you.
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>>2485791
I looks good but I would try doing something with the cigar. It blends in too much with the lion and isn't pronounced enough. Make it a darker color and hit it with some highlights to distinguish what you are trying to convey. Looks good otherwise.
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>>2485884
Also... Maybe some smoke?
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I've noticed that most of the activities in 'Keys to Drawing', if not all, don't use construction. Dodson doesn't teach the reader construction and rather instructs them to draw contours and negative space for the most part. On the flip side, you have Loomis who teaches construction right off the bat in 'Fun with a Pencil'.
Why does Bert Dodson do this? Isn't construction one of the most important concepts of drawing? Should one learn how to simply measure and draw contours/negative space before constructing?
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>>2485636
>Should one learn how to simply measure and draw contours/negative space before constructing?
yes
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Keys to Drawing (and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which is similar) is about learning to draw what you see as literally as possible. Fun With A Pencil is more about learning to draw from imagination.
>Should one learn how to simply measure and draw contours/negative space before constructing?
No and disregard >>2485642
Drawing is not gated process, rather, it is holistic, and you should be learning all fundamentals as simultaneously as you can. The best course of action is to do exercises in both books within the same time frame.
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>>2485686
Agreed, many things you will learn will seem paradoxical, but learning from various teachers/methods/books will help round out your skills. You will eventually keep what works and dispose what does not
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I'm doing a bit of artwork for a Game.. And we are on a bit of a time crunch so I had to use resources at hand. But I'd like a critique on the almost finished product, maybe redlines/ suggestions?
Anyways here is the piece.
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>>2485613
>shitty photobashing
>complete lack of understanding of perspective
take it to the beginner thread, brah
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>>2485613
The carpet looks like an alien lifeform and the light seems to not obey physics.
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Nella Larsen (Happy Birthday!) OC 2016-04-13 23:07:21 Post No.2485423
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Nella Larsen (Happy Birthday!) OC
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"Done in the Quotables theme, I created this piece partly in response to a commission by celebrated author Heidi Durrow for her Mixed Experience History Month, which she single-handedly started in 2007. Nella Larson was featured in her website badge in 2012.
I was inspired by Nella Larson's writings myself, so I created this piece as well."
http://art.zerflin.com/#/nella-larsen
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>>2485423
Are you proud of this?
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Yes. The figure took about 14 hours to draw.
give it to me baby
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>>2485360
I'll give you this thicc dicc baby come get some
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>>2485360
Makes me feel like I'm eating cotton candy as a fat kid hiding in a cave and watching the ocean too afraid to go out and let my glorious man boobs bounce as I swim freely amongst the mermaids.
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Opinions please
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Interesting
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Is it possible to get good at drawing if I have a full time job at an office? I'd try to practice after work and weekends.
People tell me on /ic/ that this isn't possible and I should enroll in an art school, which I can't do because I need the money.
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Other people did it, so sure.
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>>2485321
>good at drawing
Good is relative. /ic/ will never declare that you are good, but you can be better at drawing than you are now. And if you always strive to draw better, then you will always be improving.
During the work week each day, I work 8hrs, commute 5-6 hours, and draw a bit when I get home. I draw better now than I did 2.5 yrs ago, but that's pretty much the only declarative statement I can make.
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>>2485337
>6 hour commute
What the fuck, how?
Lambo digital painting
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Looks like a blurry pic or a Lamborghini with an instagram filter over it.
Can I get a critique? Needs some more softening but I'm happy with the progress.
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there's a thread for this, i'll give you the link
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Anyone here try and study fundamentals through nude models and end up just jerking off to them instead of putting the hours in to draw and study?
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>>2484928
If you actually try to draw and study the model you would be too busy learning from making mistakes rather than going muh dick.
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yeah same here . not sure if I want to actually draw or just draw fap material
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Uh, the other people in the class just let you get away with that? You enjoy masturbating in public?
Or do you hire your own models? Why not just fuck them then
i read a really fucking beautiful heart touching story illustrated in the progression of some aspiring artists work
he got great at drawing the human figure but the idea he looked to be pitching seemed to be shit
unfortunatley drawing perfect doesnt help you create fantastic stories
anyways
the guy drew great bodies so he had that going for him
what book are they refering to when they say loomis? "for what its worth" ?
i suck at the bods
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>>2484845
>what book are they refering to when they say loomis? "for what its worth" ?
yes
also your post doesn't make any sense
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>>2484848
you answered my question though so im okay
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Okay artists, riddle me this.
The Golden Ratio in art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXDmAtTJ6JY
I understand the basics (kinda, probably not), but I still don't understand how you get it on canvas.
Is it determined by a canvas size, e.g. you can create it out of any size canvas?
> I have A4 paper, so I need to find a point where the golden ratio is.
or
Is it determined by an artist himself, custom made?
>I have A4 paper so I have to resize to the point of the golden ratio (making a square then extending the lines etc.)
Or am I being a fucking retard, and it's all about dividing line lengths with Phi, that is 1.618? And then making square and rectangle?
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>>2484807
its just a meme and you fell for it
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>>2485412
So it's not a meme?
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any form of mountainscape, paint,digital,lead wuteva
lets get this going! mountains are beautiful and mysterious
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bump bc i like mountains also
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Here's an old one I did.
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>>2484741
>bumping
>on /ic/
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I recently got a new tablet after mine died and im drawing to get a better feeling of it, but i remembered i saw some tablet exercises a while ago over here that i think will help me get used with it a bit faster, anyone has them by any chance?
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>>2484334
Have a bump bby
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>>2484334
idk what you are speaking about that osu! is a good warm up
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>>2484334
Moatdd tutorials on YouTube
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Can any of you answer me this question. When measuring your face vertically is the length from your chin to the bottom of your nose equal to
1. the bottom of your nose to your eyebrows
or
2. the bottom of your nose to the middle of your eyes.
Mine is number 1. I am doing a frontal portrait in pencil for class but my study guide imply 2 instead.
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Bottom of nose to eyebrows. Hairline to brow line to bottom of nose to chin are all equal in proportion.
Generally.
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>>2484333
I also have another question. My teacher wants us to start with the eyes do you know what would best match the distance from the previous question except horizontally?
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>>2484348
Two of those measurements flipped horizontally is roughly the width of the head. Is that what you mean?